powerful blast rocks the syrian capital while russia makes another push for a diplomatic solution to the crisis claiming the west's germination to oust president assad is to relative peace. looking back at the police stop doris' on r t hurricane sandy wreaks havoc across the northeastern united states leading up to one hundred dead millions without power and shaking up the country's most expensive presidential campaign to date. no peace for post gadhafi libya's the country's two major cities were attacked grenade strikes the security headquarters in tripoli while a car bomb detonates in benghazi. and truth under attack in greece journalists show solidarity with whistleblowers who say they're being silenced while trying to expose government.

seven am in moscow i mad treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news an explosion in the syrian capital's wounded at least eleven people the blast happened near a heavily guarded military and government buildings no one's admitted to the attack but al qaeda linked militant groups have been behind recent similar incidents meanwhile there's been another drive toward a diplomatic solution to the syrian conflict as russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov may with the u.n. peace envoy lakhdar brahimi says western states priority of regime change in syria is destructive and could lead to more bloodshed ali mohammed editor in chief of the syria tribune says no resolution can solve the crisis while the u.s. and its allies seem determined to oust assad. the west insists that they

should dictate the outcome of the struggle there will be no solution because they will they are required to out somebody who is our full and who enjoys a lot of support from the syrian people and the syrian army more importantly and insisting on having him removed means since to see one war and this can lead to being anything good to the syrian people the russian diplomacy has been very active trying to find a political solution to the syrian crisis and this was unfortunately. at this year from the nato nations troops to the level of his trying to convince everybody that . the new syria will be a syria for for everybody all of its components and one of these performances that at the supporters there is obviously too little what's going on it is backed by the us with. more militarization more weapons to the intervals more and more mess occur as more deadly events and the other one is by russia where everybody where it was

to liberals and everybody in the us and diplomacy are asking people to start stop fighting and start talking and start negotiating and to start their way to find common ground from where we stand the syrian people it's it's only diplomacy that mr lavrov is supporting is what could bring the solution down to the wire in the u.s. presidential race and while voters in florida lined up to cast their ballots in early voting those in new york are queuing for a few rations and blankets thanks to hurricane sandy much of the big apple remains paralyzed with tens of thousands still without power heat or hot water nearly a week after the so-called super storm tore through archie's marina poor and i has more on the political fallout from the disaster. she was a storm the size of europe and it might be a game changer for america's upcoming us presidential election early voting was suspended as hurricane sandy ripped through the u.s. east coast monday causing eight and

a half million homes and businesses to lose power with the death toll expected to surpass one hundred president barack obama canceled campaign appearances to handle the superstorm the election will take care of itself next week. to make sure that. national polls show the commander in chief garnered excellent marks for his response is. the president. he's my man. vote for obama. the possible yet the biggest praise of all came from a staunch romney supporter the cooperation for the part of the united states has been outstanding the president has been all over this he deserves great credit if you think right now i give a damn about presidential politics that you don't know me looking to also score political points republican candidate mitt romney rebranded his victory rally in

ohio into a relief a vent for sandy victims. to stop the police because. they . are still being very close thank you but while the candidates attempt to feature sandy in their quest for votes her victims are too busy piecing their lives back together below thirty ninth street has become known as the dark side of manhattan hundreds of thousands have been surviving without electricity heat and hot water for more than five days the traffic lights do not work and most businesses have remained closed city officials say that power will be restored to the borough by election day the same promise has not been made to millions of voters living in other parts of new york and nearby states on staten island polling stations are no longer standing voting locations are being moved in parts of new jersey massachusetts connecticut and pennsylvania that are still dark and damaged by the

storm some experts say the last minute scrambling will undoubtedly leave countless americans disenfranchised from democracy on november sixth it's destroying the legitimacy of the election potentially on the east coast early voting is being wiped out in these cities and states the voting of the elderly on election day the voting of the poor on election day the voting in of new yorkers on election day. it is likely to be diminished through no fault of their own and that will affect the outcome of the election i don't lection now defined by two men and sandy marina port ny r.t. new york regardless of who wins tuesday's vote washington will still have to find fifty billion dollars to cover sandy's damage and it's not likely to come from military cuts the country's defense budget dwarfs that of any other nation and in

these hard times some observers say that money could be put to better use. there's no more important issue in america today and how much we're spending on our military our military industrial complex that's where most of us tax dollars go i mean most americans know that this is just wasteful spending here it creates a few jobs but there's so many more jobs that would be created if that spending that governmental spending was done on a whole bunch of other things like publicly utilities like a whole other range of areas so it's really destroying our economy in a lot of ways besides creating a lot on this sort of violence around the world that seems like the legacy of us being involved in this war is over these last years is going to be the same legacy that happened to a lot of other. empires that just they just spent themselves out of existence that happened to the soviet union and they're in this area wars that happened to the british you know what happened to a lot of other societies that these military industrial complex takes over nobody

stops them before you know it you know your whole country is like an overwhelming debt contrary to what much of the mainstream media shows there are alternatives to the g.o.p. and democrat leave us presidential politics we've been bring you extensive extensive coverage of the third party candidates plans and policies that continues monday nine pm eastern standard time when we air the final debate live from washington. will two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power of power alone. plus if america changes trucks with elections for those guys monday nov fifth one or two. coming up later this hour wiki leaks could vanish from the radar america's library of record doesn't want to divulge anything uncomfortable so this is what you see when you search for anything linked to wiki leaks what's. the wave of

discontent it's called weight and reign over the country's monarchies recent bans of public gatherings battles still to come. but first militiamen in libya's capital of said the supreme security committee headquarters on fire and looted it has followed a series of sporadic gun battles outside the building our middle east correspondent paula has the latest. a gun battle raging in south tripoli between two rival libyan militias around the libyan security cave courses building in from the information we have at least five people have been injured and part of that building has been destroyed now we are receiving reports that the whole area has been cordoned off that many residents in the area have rushed home in a very came in itself in front of inside of their homes and also arming themselves to the point where i can see that security building is false and next to the tripoli central hospital and some of them but it's from this gun that all the hospital was also on sunday morning there was a car bomb explosion in front of

a police station in the second largest city in libya of being ghazi now at least three police officers were wounded in that car explosion we not hearing any reports as of the actual people who have been killed we also know that part of the building particularly the entrance has been damaged that facade to that building has been talking just for you and they are a number of shattered windows now one of those comes up to more than a thousand protesters take to the streets of benghazi they are calling for the eastern half of libya to be separated we're talking here about roughly hostile territory of the country that holds more than three quarters of the oil reserves they want their own autonomy their one too many to the owner of things and then one thing ghazi to be the economic capital of the country all of this coming a little more than a year since we saw revolution ousted the former you were in the gadhafi and what. is the polarized nation of people polarizations in terms of what people want and

gun battles on the streets we also know that for weeks now the city of funny when it has been and to see and from there we saw how when pictures of death and destruction yet are of a pan-african newswire says the revolution has turned the clock back for libya by several decades. historically during the period of the ottoman empire as well as a time of colonialism the country was divided basically in the three different regions are three design in the south. and the last and of course are annika in the east and as a result of the independence movement in libya after nine hundred fifty one and of course after the seizure of power back adare and his cohorts of nine hundred sixty nine there was a concerted effort to bring about some type of national identity and cohesiveness inside of libya all that has fallen apart over the last year and this is why we're having these type of such and conflicts inside the country u.s. is literally a racing wiki leaks from memory with national archives banning any search that

includes the whistleblowing organizations name so rights groups joined by librarians are unhappy saying such blatant censorship is akin to george orwell's ministry of truth loss leader of the u.k. pirate party seems a little good in the band. mission of the library of congress since two to preserve a collective body of knowledge the job of any line be shortly should be to share that knowledge but in frankly not surprising that such organizations that are under pressure actually can form to these kind of classification noughts but essentially this is still censorship and censorship nor is it actually stepping on freedom of speech we often see that united states in its very quick to criticize its states abroad stepping on preened speech would seem a mama able to hold the same standards at home we can see how the wind.

blowing. them and the democracy. arrested after publishing a list of his country's potential tax evaders was acquitted thursday but another is still in custody after threatening to reveal how the books were cooked before greece got its belly out peter all over a ports the trend in greece is to root out those who are veal the wrongdoing rather than those doing the wrong. is the greek government using the bully tactics to cover up its own failings that's the question that took thousands of journalists to the streets of athens the council list for their outrage was the arrest of journalist vaxevanis after he revealed the names of more than two thousand wealthy and highly influential greeks accused of stashing a listen games in suisse bank accounts. we published a list that other countries had in their possession and our government was aware of

every two years but did nothing in the absence of democracy is governed by corrupt characters who deceive the public much naming their handling tax evasion vaxevanis was set free after the judges decided that he did not have a case to answer however his story is sent a shockwave through an already fractious society we are in a period of political social and political crisis social crisis is obvious we have. one employment we have a real thing one might say weimar republic kind of unemployment level is there is. there or there is more austerity coming but when it comes to reporting on government business one senior member of the greek journalists told me that it's getting close to cooperate quit

a mess some of its own members of both restrictions have been imposed to any voice of the opposition and the media goes restricting journalists some do. thousand five hundred media professionals technicians have lost their job since last year. and those who attempt to stand up to authority and expose corruption are handcuffed to be arrested because he revealed the names of his you can understand that people can cooperate with the state vaxevanis told me he won't keep silent i asked him if he was given another list of names they already do this is my job this is what journalists do they don't cover scandals yet they told the truth and the elites tried for two whole years to come up with a major evidence that renders them in the system entirely unreliable one of the good from the arrest of a journalist while trying to reveal wrongdoing has left some greeks feeling that the democratic rights of being a road here in the very birthplace of democracy peter all of

a party. greece has its work cut out athens apparently needing to introduce another hundred fifty changes to its fiscal policies to please international creditors investment advisor patrick young though thinks the effort could be few to. alice in wonderland that fabulous children's book had an alice famously saying that sometimes she imagines six impossible things before breakfast well not going to the troika of lenders that there are a hundred fifty eight impossible cuts before breakfast for the greek economy look the greeks are in this mess because ultimately they spend huge amounts of money we have terrible sympathy with the ordinary greeks on the street they are being left in a situation where they don't even have primary medical care in many cases but are we going to be able to see them manage to cut the economy or cut back in many different ways of course not they'll be lucky to manage to get twenty of these cuts to stick let alone one hundred fifty it's alarmed alice in wonderland economics and still ahead with money being squeezed all around as one man who is being the big

banks by thinking small. people who rob banks could have. banks who real people get paid bonuses. he's taking finance back to basics looking after his community at a time when the big lenders look only out for themselves that's still to come. first the local activists in kuwait say security forces detained dozens of pro-democracy demonstrators in another crackdown on unrest in the gulf nation protesters defied kuwait's ban on public gatherings that was imposed last month as thousands demonstrated against new voting rules it was a peaceful rally but police still resorted to stun grenades and smoke bombs the opposition claims changes in the electoral system given advantage to the pro-government candidates in next month's vote meanwhile in bahrain the government also announced a ban on public gatherings last week that caused outrage among people as hundreds of pro-reform is took to the streets. tension rising twenty one months after dozens

of protesters were killed and thousands arrested when the arab spring pro-democracy uprising was heavily suppressed by bahraini security forces analyst for stop imperialism dot com eric draitser is says gulf monarchies confidently profit in take undemocratic measures feeling the support of the west. a protest movement developing in saudi arabia one that's continued to go on in bahrain we see the same around the arab world more generally and kuwait looks at itself or rather the government does and they see that they really stand no chance at maintaining power maintaining control of that country unless they're able to successfully suppress the end repress the opposition please our client states of the united states bahrain this is the u.s. fifth fleet in the navy kuwait as we all know the role that it played in both wars against iraq kuwait is very much dependent on saudi arabia and the united states

and so all of this is part of a geo political calculus of us that germany us does not want to see its control over the region slippered way by something as fatally as the democratic aspirations of the people of the region. doctors are warning hunger strikers in turkey could die in the next ten days riot police to watertown i'm here to ask that citizens protesting in support of the imprisoned hunger strikers find out why the prisoners are going without food to the point of starvation on our website. and get a tip off the next time the space station flies over your head with an outside text message on learn all the details on line. b. use main players set to square up to britain calling out had to decide if it really

wants to stay part of the club it's after this week's bruising for prime minister david cameron is own and just turned on him inside with the opposition in a vote urging congress to yearly payments to fund the e.u.'s deputy prime minister one of the political rebellion p.c. business isolated within a block of commons conservatives are using it to push for the people to choose whether. for birth speak and inflation increase on the budget would equate to an extra three hundred million pounds a year and that would increase over the multi annual budget up to two thousand and twenty and at a time when the u.k. families are having to make very difficult often painful decisions with their household budgets local councils doing the same and even our own national government here in the u.k. i think it is absolutely right to expect the european union to try and trim some of its very large budget and i think it's politically smart for the government to actually be in touch with public opinion majority of people in the united kingdom

have never had a say on our relationship with europe we need a referendum this side of the general election in this parliament and let democracy reign and let the british people have their voice heard in britain right now trying to buy a home or set up a business is tough with the big banks having seized up and keeping the cash for themselves but everyone's letting the community grind to a halt laura smith went to meet the one man back. hello thank you to work on the work you do fish which is a cheeky northern charmer he made his fortune selling minibuses in his hometown as burnley but instead of fancy holidays and expensive cars when the credit crisis hit dave wanted to give something back so he decided to open a bank says late two thousand and eight early two thousand and nine my mini. me to get funded for their bosses as they are done for the last fifteen years but overnight that just stopped the banks just stopped lending to the to the customers

and i'm thinking other done something wrong have they made a mistake of that up at the gas bill electric bill or form bill you know it's not the people that are the problem it's the banks that have the problem try thought arland of them so that's what it bank on dave he says although thanks to extensive red tape he's not actually allowed to call himself a bank and he's keen to differentiate himself from banks in other ways too he offers five percent on savings and he lends that money out to his local community and no bonuses and he profits go to charity. if there just isn't a day in every town more's the pity so his isn't a model which could be rolled out nationwide in its current form but financial experts say lessons can be learnt for a healthier banking system one point is clear and this is a point that the bank makes in a way is that banking has just moved too far away from its roots and its basic

need to understand to saving with. rush where highly leveraged changing the last ditch effort dates ultimate goal is to bring banking back to its roots no more faceless conglomerates where computers and mavericks make the decisions and the one percent. it's unimaginable but you know this is instead a local banks the local people run by the community to benefit the community it's not a new idea in fact it's how banking used to be full of the mega bucks and mega banks . and dave still taking to get some political support you have to take save us money and invest it in real productive activity to take responsibility for doing it which is not the way that can currently works and he's called me kind of crazy way

showing the way to a better banking system which is responsible. in touch with entrepreneurship which actually could be the basis for going forwards there's certainly got to be some way for woods as wave after wave of scandal hits the financial sector banking on dave and others like him looks more and more attractive and one of the sayings i use a lot of people who rob banks go to personal banks who real people get paid bonuses to stop. oh let's see. turning now to some other stories making global headlines at least ten refugees drowned in the mediterranean on their way from north africa to italy boat carrying around eighty people was heading to the island of lampedusa a destination for thousands of migrants seeking refuge in europe reports indicate more than fifteen hundred people died last year while trying to reach italy. a grenade attack on a church in kenya has killed one police officer and wounded fourteen others mostly

security guards a country in the wider region of suffering going to similar attacks in response to kenya sending troops to neighboring somalia to battle titling to insurgents there in july eighteen people died in church attacks in the same town as sunday's assault . an eleven year old child is dead eighteen other people injured after a bomb targeting a police vehicle exploded in turkey's sending only district the area is frequently struck by acts of violence carried out by the kurdistan workers party which is fighting for autonomy in the country's south east no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. finally in this news block some of russia's most radical political groups were out in force sunday from diehard nationalist or right fascists in dozens of cities tens of thousands joined marches chanting against immigration israel is a lawman all things foreign or was keeping her eye on the crowds in moscow. the

slogans and the messages that we've been hearing from the crowd behind me is that russia for russians only they want the flag of the russian order they're basically demanding jobs for your russians whatever that means and they're also pushing to repeal the law part of the russian criminal law that actually punishes hate crimes motivated by religious hatred nationalists and that that hatred so it's a message of national unity that probably doesn't sit well with a large chunk of the population now there are some reports about six thousand people in the crowd the permit us for about ten thousand people of course a massive police presence here as well the protest seems to be largely peaceful although we've also heard reports of about twenty five people wearing black clothes with the swastika shouting slogans they've been detained in another part of the city center here in moscow now we have to keep in mind that this is the play of swastikas is of course banned in a russia as well as many european countries similar types of rallies have been taking place across russia and we've heard of another report of about ninety people

detained in the urals city you'll get to be in good part taking part of an on off a rise nationalist rally there now the police say that most of those people were teenagers again rather disturbing sight frankly we've seen a lot of bad nationalist clogs sort of icons from the church which i guess is the symbol of some of the people here as well as some reports of people actually chanting long live and there's braving the of course the far right extremists as massacred seventy seven people in norway. coming up a closer look at the roots of the occupy movement stay with us for a short break. she could lumber tour to curry was easy to build with this issue. robot which on

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